Aldenheim

The Alden Peninsula stirs beneath a creeping Frost. Five Realms, one spreading Corruption, and a handful of unlikely heroes.

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Toward Black Temple
Day 50
Toward Black Temple

Shelly and Liorin Vale were sent back out of High Alden almost as soon as Professor Sylic had finished making the larger truth harder to ignore. The King Regent ordered them toward Origin Isle and the Black Temple, Sir Kaelin put a mysterious spindle in Shelly's hands for Captain Edric, and what sho…

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The Five Realms

Crownvale
Crownvale
The seat of power on the peninsula.
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Embercrag
Embercrag
Warmth as power, industry as religion, and bargains with what lives in the heat.
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Frostmarch
Frostmarch
Siege‑living, oath‑keeping, and the terror of familiarity turning wrong.
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Sablecoast
Sablecoast
Fortress ports, desperate desert salvage. Faith tested by the sea and wind.
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Verdantweald
Verdantweald
The dark canopy has eyes
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Geography

Alden Peninsula
Alden Peninsula
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Chain Islands
Chain Islands
Cold islands that make the bay feel counted, watched, and older than the ships passing through it.
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Places

Black Temple
Black Temple
A building that makes oath, silence, and accusation feel like the same thing.
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Origin Isle
Origin Isle
A sacred island everyone can see and almost no one is meant to touch.
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The Collegium Arcanum
The Collegium Arcanum
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Characters

Brother Alaric
Brother Alaric
Guide
A hearthfire that walks
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Captain Edric
Captain Edric
Very Han solo vibes
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Cousin Barry
Cousin Barry
Just working the party
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Hatter of Hearthmere
Hatter of Hearthmere
A covered head, an uncovered opinion.
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King Aldric
King Aldric
A founder who understood that peace sometimes arrives wearing blood.
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King Harold III
King Harold III
A careful king made most important by his absence.
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King Regent
King Regent
A scared young girl but seems stronger and wiser than she appears
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Lost Guide
Lost Guide
Gone without a trace
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Moss
Moss
Guide
Gentle hands, unsettling smile.
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O7
O7
Here for a good time and a long time
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Professor Sylic
Professor Sylic
Growth is most important
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Sir Kaelin
Sir Kaelin
Guide
A calm lantern in a bad storm.
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Tikka Draugt
Tikka Draugt
The little maker
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Zhurm
Zhurm
Hero in a half shell
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Zizz
Zizz
Guide
A spark that refuses to behave.
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Adventurers

Burn
Burn
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Ellieish Goldfinger
Ellieish Goldfinger
Ellieish Goldfinger learned early that in a port town like New Vale, people notice size first and care about it least if…
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Foxtail
Foxtail
Foxy Tail has spent so much of her life in the wild shape of a fox that some people who know her best treat her tiefling…
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Liorin Vale
Liorin Vale
In the sleepy village of Willowmere, where the mist kissed the cobblestone roads each morning, lived a boy named Liorin…
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Malad Voltren
Malad Voltren
Malad Voltren grew up in New Vale, but much of his family history came from Sablecoast. His parents moved west so his fa…
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Ord Stonebreaker
Ord Stonebreaker
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SaQueena
SaQueena
Raised in Saltmere, among the reed channels and black-water docks of Sablecoast. SaQueena grew up in Saltmere, where bea…
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Shelly
Shelly
Shelly was born into a storied line of master artificers and showed rare genius from childhood. His future seemed certai…
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Tiny Arm Tim
Tiny Arm Tim
Tim was abandoned young on the streets of Gildwater and grew up between alleys, dockside corners, and whatever orphanage…
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Toemush da Tank
Toemush da Tank
Toemush da Tank was born in Verdantweald, where size is not unusual among firbolgs but kindness can still be mistaken fo…
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Triston King
Triston King
Triston grew up in Hearthmere, where spring steam and mountain cold meet in the same breath. His father is a miner who w…
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Ummonlim Ovalbelly
Ummonlim Ovalbelly
Ummonlim is from Stonebridge, where his father serves as a guard in the towers that watch the great bridge. He grew up a…
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Zero Infinity
Zero Infinity
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Zhodrok
Zhodrok
Born in a cave where “subtlety” meant hitting things slightly less loudly, Zhodrok was expected to grow into a proper bu…
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Notable Items

Apparatus of Kwalish
Apparatus of Kwalish
Current Location: Sable Trench, Sablecoast
Sable Trench, Sablecoast unknown The apparatus arrived in Grimharbor in the hold of a salvage vessel working the wrecks of Chain Bay. For se…
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Bag of Beans
Bag of Beans
Current Location: unknown
unknown unknown A bag of bean was once owned by one of the guides of Verdantweald but it is rumored to have been lost at sea during a trip t…
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Cloak of Billowing
Cloak of Billowing
Current Location: with Shelly
with Shelly Found in the basement guard rooms of the Castle of High Alden Found in the guard rooms beneath the Castle of High Alden. Sized f…
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Cube of Force
Cube of Force
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Deck of Illusions
Deck of Illusions
Current Location: unknown
unknown unknown A deck was rumored to have been lost to a Captain in a gambling game in Grimharbor. Wondrous item, uncommon — no attunement…
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Folding Boat
Folding Boat
Current Location: unknown
unknown unknown A folding boat has been used to travel to the Chain Islands in Chain Bay but on the return trip the boat was lost in a storm…
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Frostmarch Cloak
Frostmarch Cloak
Crafted in the wilds of Frostmarch to combat the long cold winter in the march. These cloaks have been made in Frostmarch for generations —…
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Hat of Disguise
Hat of Disguise
Current Location: unknown
unknown Crafted by Hatter of Hearthmere and sold to an anonymous buyer and the source of its magical properties are still unknown A hat of d…
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Hat of More Hats
Hat of More Hats
Current Location: The Hatter of Hearthmere wears this top hat all the time.
The Hatter of Hearthmere wears this top hat all the time. Crafted by the Hatter of Hearthmere and later altered by an artificer to hold an e…
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Heat Stone
Heat Stone
Mined in The Crag and first worked at scale by the industrial holds and gnome engineers of Embercrag A heat stone is a dense mineral core cu…
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Heat Stone Pendant
Heat Stone Pendant
First created in Frostmarch as a personal way to carry the warmth of a cut Heat Stone through deep cold Heat stone pendants are one of the s…
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Immoveable Rod
Immoveable Rod
Current Location: with Liorin Vale
with Liorin Vale Found in the basement guard rooms of the Castle of High Alden Found in the guard rooms beneath the Castle of High Alden. Pr…
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Iron Flask
Iron Flask
Current Location: unknown
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Lantern of Steady Flame
Lantern of Steady Flame
Current Location: with Zhodrok
Made by the Lost Guide of Frostmarch before his disappearance. How it came to be in the dungeon beneath the Castle of High Alden is unknown.…
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Marching Maps of Aldenheim
Marching Maps of Aldenheim
Current Location: with Watchers of the Five Realms
Only five of these magical maps were made at The Founding of Aldenheim and the infusion used to make them has been destroyed. They were orig…
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Necklace of Prayer Beads
Necklace of Prayer Beads
Current Location: with Liorin Vale
with Liorin Vale Given to the party by the King Regent on Day 43. Given as a practical gift — something to keep the party alive long enough…
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Portable Hole
Portable Hole
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Rimebound Pendant
Rimebound Pendant
Current Location: with Professor Sylic
Fashioned by Professor Sylic in the Underhall Archives beneath The Collegium Arcanum as a controlled research tool for studying The Frost Co…
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Rimecutter Dagger
Rimecutter Dagger
Current Location: with Professor Sylic
Forged and modified by Professor Sylic in the Underhall Archives using a narrow steel dagger, specimen-work fittings, and a sliver of fitted…
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Rosecore Spindle
Rosecore Spindle
Current Location: with Shelly
unknown with Shelly
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Seal Matrix of Aldenheim
Seal Matrix of Aldenheim
Current Location: with King Regent
Only one of these exist in the realm and it was originally given to King Aldric when it was first infused with its powers at The Founding of…
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Steam Wagon
Steam Wagon
Developed in Embercrag, especially by gnome engineers in The Crag, as a way to move ore and stone through mines and industrial roads without…
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Underhall Borrower's Card
Underhall Borrower's Card
Current Location: with Shelly
Issued by Professor Sylic from the Underhall Archives beneath The Collegium Arcanum after Shelly removed a library book whose text vanished…
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Monsters

Bandit
Bandit
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Bandit Captain
Bandit Captain
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Bat
Bat
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Corrupted Gelatinous Cube
Corrupted Gelatinous Cube
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Corrupted Human
Corrupted Human
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Dire Wolf
Dire Wolf
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Frost Goblin
Frost Goblin
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Ice Mephit
Ice Mephit
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Mimic
Mimic
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Morvath
Morvath
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Troll
Troll
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Wolf
Wolf
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